Description

Queens South Africa Medal with four clasps RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY, PAARDEBERG, DRIEFONTEIN, TRANSVAAL, period engraved named 28570 Sapr S.H. SEYMOUR. R.E.; Kings South Africa Medal with two clasps SOUTH AFRICA 1901, SOUTH AFRICA 1902, impressed named 28570 SAPR S.H. SEYMOUR. R.E.; British War and Victory Medals (1914 – 18) impressed named 15727 SGT H.S. SEYMOUR. R.A.F. Medals come with copies of Army and RFC/RAF service records, medal rolls and copy picture.

Sergeant Herbert Stanley Seymour was born in June 1877 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. A grocer by trade he enlisted into the Royal Engineers on 12/7/1895 and was given the service #28570.

He served in South Africa from 30/11/1899 – 16/10/1902 with the 1st Telegraph Division.

He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 26/10/1902 serving until 1907 and then he signed up for ‘Section D Reserve’ (to be called upon in the event of general mobilisation). The 1911 census records him working as a linesman for the Post Office.

He joined the Royal Flying Corps on 22/11/1915 as a Airman 2nd Class (service #15727) being quickly promoted to Acting Corporal and substantive Corporal in January and March 1916.

He was deployed to France serving from 5/3/1916 until wounded and returned to Hospital in England 25/6/1917. It is unknown which unit he was serving with when wounded, possibly a Balloon Section being a linesman. He was conveyed by 133 Field Ambulance which was part of 39th Division.

On recovering he was deployed to the Middle East from 10/12/1917. By the 15/2/1919 he was at the Ballon Base at Spinola (Malta) in February 1919 with the rank of Sergeant awaiting transport back to England. Transferred to the RAF Reserve on 4/4/1919, he was formally discharged on 30/4/1920 and died in March 1935 in Dartford, Kent.